Quote

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
Author
Economist
Essayist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Statistician
University Teacher
Writer
Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
Nassim Taleb
Signs
Showing
Sign
Avoid
Weakness

More quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Image
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb